A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo CalvinoTags: words reading books literature meaning classics
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton FadimanBooks themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: books literature reader readership
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: life books death read literature
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: books writing vision literature creativity
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. LewisNo two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund WilsonTags: reading books perspective
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: words reading books literature
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book."
(Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading, Harper's Magazine, February 2008)
Tags: books
Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."
(Almansor)
Tags: books freedom-of-thought oppression torture human-rights book-burning bücherverbrennung meinungsfreiheit menschenwürde toleranz
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